October 2015 Blog Posts (3)

Your Patients Are Unique

It seems that many of us suffer from “one size fits all”. This is not surprising; it’s how we were trained. I’m referring the hygienic phase of periodontal treatment. This is where every periodontal patient receives instructions in plaque control, comprehensive scaling and root planing, then a revaluation to determine additional (surgical) needs. I could never buy into this approach. I always thought we could be more sophisticated in our diagnosis and…